Microsoft has created a buzzword to go with its age-verification plan: "digital playgrounds," sites where kids use digital ID cards to hang out in adult-free places online.... Read More»
If you rely on browser history to keep an eye on your kids' Web surfing habits, you should know that stealth browsing is getting easier --at least for families relying on Windows PCs.... Read More»
There are more than 150 virtual worlds -- either open now or in development -- targeting people 18 and under,... Read More»
For socializers too young to drive, mobile phones are lifelines, and Disney has fresh plans to capitalize on that fact.... Read More»
We don't have to allow the news media's negative, narrowly defined presentation of social networking to influence how we picture social networking at school.... Read More»
According to an executive in Disney's U.S. mobile phone division, kids will let parents' calls go to voicemail, then text Mom or Dad about what's up.... Read More»
If you can just help your kids apply what they're learning about how to treat people respectfully and function in community to the online part of their lives, you're accomplishing a lot.... Read More»
If age verification is required of websites, kids' personal information would have to be stored in a database somewhere. And that information could be vulnerable.... Read More»
If children begin to see online environments as communities they're helping to shape so that they have a stake in them, they'll simply act more accountably.... Read More»
Not long ago Dale Ferrario was working at Sun Microsystems and wanting to figure out how to help young people learn about technology in a way that they found relevant. He decided to combine social networking with learning about technology in a safe online... Read More»
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